Karl Burke is unbeaten at Kempton in 2025 and sends two runners on Wednesday
Liam Bramall
Published:
January 28, 2025
Horse racing is in Liam's blood and his biggest passion is jumps racing. He can often be found at his favourite tracks; Chepstow and Cheltenham in the Autumn when the National Hunt action kicks off. In his own words: "I'm often referred to as a walking form book, a trait which comes in handy from time to time. My proudest tipping success to date was landing a whopping 682-1 accumulator at Epsom."
Statistics don’t provide any guarantees but can often be good pointers so we like to let you know when some interesting ones pop up. Karl Burke has a 100 per cent record at Kempton so far this year and he’s set to send two runners to the track on Wednesday.
Here we take a good look at their chances and one is perhaps a more likely winner than the other. Burke is operating at a healthy strike-rate of 21 per cent in this last fortnight and that also bodes well. Check out our free tips page for daily content across British and Irish racing.
Arika remains relatively lightly raced for a six-year-old and his best form suggests he should be capable of winning races. Most of his best efforts have come over a mile and the son of Speightstown was beaten by less than a length when third off a 7lb higher mark at Lingfield back in July. This is just his second start for the yard and if producing a similar level of form here, he can shed his maiden tag at the 14th time of asking.
Cracking Man is one of the outsiders here and the gelding failed to get home over 7f last time out. A 3lb drop in the weights combined with the return to 6f should help and he’s surely still unexposed. Finishing fourth at Newcastle on his penultimate start, he’s probably well treated on that evidence but improvement will be required on what we’ve seen recently. Our Nap of the day lines up in this race too and you can find out more here.
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